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The Organizational Development Manager leads the University’s operational excellence team. This position provides oversight of project management, people analytics, and business analysis functions to ensure that strategic and operational initiatives are completed efficiently and effectively in support of the organization.

• Partner with HR leadership to identify organizational priorities and ensure execution of initiatives
• Implement frameworks and standardized processes based on operational excellence best practices that support the successful execution of strategic and operational initiatives
• Manage large, complex HR projects that improve the customer experience, increase efficiency, and improve effectiveness
• Work with unit leadership to execute, review, and improve upon established methods
• Provide leadership with project updates and progress reports
• Work with University partners to assist with prioritization, resource allocation, and execution of University initiatives that require HR resources; serve as a subject matter expert on University-wide initiatives
• Provide consultation to help analyze problems, identify gaps, and recommend solutions
• Provide day-to-day management and leadership of the Operational Excellence team
• Champion and promote the value of operational excellence work
• Coach, mentor, and support HR in understanding project management, data analytics, and business process improvement processes

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 15
• Minimum – $109,300.00
• MidPoint – $136,600.00
• Maximum – $164,000.00